Binding: sprinkled calf over pasteboard. Double blind fillets along edges and spine, with thistles(?) stamped in blind at corners. Rebacked; leather spine label with gold-tooled title: Pyrotech / -nia / - / Babington. At foot of spine is "1635" tooled in gold

Library's copy has bookplate of F.B. Lorch on front pastedown, and bookplate of Francis Fulford, dated 1699, on inside of front board (showing through opening cut in front pastedown)

Added engraved t.p. has title: Pyrotechnia, or, A discourse of artificiall fire workes for pleasure ... It is signed: Io Droeshout scul. The border of illustrations incorporates a port. of Babington

Second sequence (72 p.) has caption title: A treatise of artificiall fire-works, most of them being invented and approved by the author. Third sequence (80 p.) has caption title: A treatise of geometry, containing sundry definitions and problemes, both pleasurable and useful. Last sequence (200 p.) comprises tables of squares and cubes

"A treatise on geometry" also issued separately

Ill. in section on fireworks are engravings. The 2 folded plates depict elaborate installations of fireworks, the first on land, the second on sea. Ill. in section on geometry are woodcuts

Signatures: [fleuron]⁶ A-F⁶ ²A-F⁶ G⁴ (a)-(f)⁶ (G)⁴ (h)⁶ (I)⁴ K-L(198} (M)⁸ N-R⁶

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Philip, C. Fireworks

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